The Osceola times., 1887-07-23
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

MARY NJ BOWMAN is editor and pro.
prietor Of the Abilene Chronicle. u new
Kansas weekly political paper.
CLARA c. AUSTIN, NJ. d.. was . del
egate to the National College of Phar.
macy held at Saratoga. June ~.
Miss AsIELIE RlvEs will probably
spend two or three weeks at Newport,
this summer, and the rest of the time
in her old Virginia home.
Mrs. JAMES II. EARLE, Superintcnd-
ent of the Sabbath Observance De.
partment of the Massachusetts, w. G..
I. u. has published leahet on "Sun.
day Newspapers"
Miss HELEN MAGrLL has resigned her
position in the Bridgewater Institute,
to take the professorship OF Greek aud
Latin in the new Woman's College, at
Princeton, New Jersey.
Miss CLARA NJ FOWLER will present
to the city of Concord, N. H., build.
ing for free public library, In
memory Of her parents, the late Judge
and Mrs. Asa Fowler.
Miss LUELLA VARsEY, of Cleveland,
is rising sculptor. She has recently
finished a bust of Bishop Gilmore. Of
that city, which exhibits much force,
and is striking likeness.
Miss ALICE FREEMAN, President OF
Wellesly College, has received $50 APP
plications from young women wishing
to enter Wellesly next year. There
are only 100 places possible at present.
Miss GRACE HOWARD has gone to
the Crow Greek Agency in Dakota,
where she will fulfill two-years mis-
sion as instructor of the Indians A
school-house will be erected there and
school established
Mrs. A. X. I. r. CAREY has in.
vented Il very simple cover for Hm-
blers or jars. 1t is made Of tough
paper. neatly printed, with space left
for marking the variety or date Of
making, and fastcns securely at once.
FRANCES L. WILLARD has gone to
Manitoba to attend w. c. T. U.
Convention. She will stop in Bis
marck. ID. T., and take in many outly-
ing towns, everywhere carrying the
good gospel Of the ballot for women as
the best temperance measure.
Mrs. HARRIET PRESCOTT SPoFFoRp,
whose husbands illness has engrossed
her attention Of late. can think OF moth
ing pleasanter than passing the sum.
mer months at home on Deer Island,
Newburyport, Mass. She is engaged
upon no other work than her Ballads
Of Authors" for Vide 4A,pdke.
RUTH +. WILSON. of Brooklyn. N.
Y, has patented an illuminated
nower-piece." The invention consists
in providing the piece with reflector
in keeping with the design. with Jets
OF light introduced before the reflector.
in such q way that air-chambers inter-
vcne between the flame and the 1ow-
crs.
Lillian WHITING says: 1.-THE time
has almost gone by for the discussion
OF whether women want or do not
want the ballot They will have it
whether they desire it or not And
the true wisdom is to study TO find
how to use this extension of power.
that is sure to come in the near
future (')".
Miss LUCY LARCoM seldom makes
plans for any thing; when she says to
herself that she will write something,
she is pretty sure not to do il; and she
seldom knows where she is going till
she starts. Her usual summer resorts
are Center Harbor and lin August and
September) the higher White Mount
ain regions. She is not now engaged
upon any connected work, but will
probably write some verses or sketches
or both-before the summer is over.
Mrs. MARY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
("Marion Harland') has gone with
her family to Sunnybank. on Lake
Ramapo, Northern New Jersey. Such
leisure as she can get she will devote
to novel which she has been trying
for six years to find time to write. DIR.
Terhune will pass some weeks in the
Adirondacks; and both he and his wife
will accept the hospitality of friend
who has q country-seat on Lake Win.
nepiseogee, for week in August